Poultry-car



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P. JENKINS & J. L. STREETER.

POULTRY GAR. No. 330,899. Patented Nov. 24, 1885.

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WILLIAM P. JENKINS AND JAMES L. STEEETER, OE MUNGIE, INDIANA.

POULTRY-CA R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,899, dated November 24:, 1885.

Application filed January 2, 1885. Serial No. 151,867. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM P. J EN- KINS and JAMEs L. STREETER, citizens of the United States, and residing in Muncie, in the county of Delaware and State of Indiana, have invented newand useful Improvements in Live- Poultry Cars, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in cars for shipping live poultry; and it consists in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter set forth and claimed.

Figure l is a section of a part of a livepoultry car with decks and compartmcntpartitions, showing an aisle through it for convenience in handling or attending to poultry, or-for storage of feed, utensils, &c. Fig. 2 is a trap-door in the decks, hung on hinges or on a pin at each end for use in changing poultry from deck to deck; and Fig. 3 is a feedtrough with perforated partitions to slide in on the rods of the partitions from side to side, and bearing a wire above the edge to prevent fowls from roosting upon it.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

A, Fig. 1, is an aisle in a live-poultry car, in which the partitions or side walls, B, may be solid or of wire, and may contain compartment-doors as outside, 0 c 0, &c. D is a trapdoor in the decks, hung on hinges or pins E E, which drops down when the catch at F is loosened. G is a hanging feedtrough with wire edges H, which slides on the rods by the hooks I I.

We are aware that aisles, trap doors, and feed-troughs are in general use, in a broad sense, for other purposes, and we do not therefore claim them as new; but

What we do claim as our invention, and which we desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a railroad live-poultry car, a wire-edged hanging feed-trough, as and for the purpose broadly set forth.

WVILLIAM P. JENKINS. JAMES L. STREETER.

Witnesses:

T. F. Ross, J. W. GARNER. 

